Electoral history of Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson ran for public office numerous times. He was the 36th president of the United States (1963–1969), the 37th vice president (1961–1963); and as a United States senator (1949–1961) and United States representative (1937–1949) from Texas.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson	8,280	27.65%
	Democratic	Merton Harris	5,111	17.07%
	Democratic	Polk Shelton	4,420	14.76%
	Democratic	Sam V. Stone	4,048	13.52%
	Democratic	C. N. Avery	3,951	13.19%
	Democratic	Houghton Brownlee	3,019	10.08%
	Democratic	Ayers Ross	1,088	3.63%
	Democratic	Edwin Waller III	30	0.10%
Total votes			29,947	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	14,476	100.00%
Total votes			14,476	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	48,442	100.00%
Total votes			48,442	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	12,799	100.00%
Total votes			12,799	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	26,454	69.90%
	Democratic	Buck Taylor	11,393	30.10%
Total votes			37,847	100.00%

Electoral history of Lyndon B. Johnson

U.S. Senate elections (1941–1960)

Presidential elections (1956–1968)

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	44,602	92.87%
	Republican	Arthur H. Bartelt	3,423	7.13%
Total votes			48,025	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	42,980	67.97%
	Democratic	Hardy Hollers	17,782	28.12%
	Democratic	Charles E. King	2,468	3.90%
Total votes			63,230	100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	16,947	100.00%
Total votes			16,947	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	W. Lee O'Daniel	175,590	30.49%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson	174,279	30.26%
	Democratic	Gerald Mann	140,807	24.45%
	Democratic	Martin Dies Jr.	80,653	14.01%
	Various	Minor candidates	4,548	0.79%
Total votes			29,947	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Coke R. Stevenson	477,077	39.68%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson	405,617	33.73%
	Democratic	George Peddy	237,195	19.73%
	Democratic	Otis Myers	15,330	1.28%
	Democratic	Frank G. Cortez	13,344	1.11%
	Democratic	Roscoe Collier	12,327	1.03%
	Democratic	Cyclone Davis	10,871	0.90%
	Democratic	Jim Alford	9,117	0.76%
	Democratic	F. B. Clark	7,420	0.62%
	Democratic	Jesse Saunders	7,401	0.62%
	Democratic	Terrell Sledge	6,692	0.56%
Total votes			1,202,391	100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson	494,191	50.004%
	Democratic	Coke R. Stevenson	494,104	49.996%
Total votes			988,295	100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson	702,985	66.22%
	Republican	Jack Porter	349,665	32.94%
	Prohibition	Samuel N. Norris	8,913	0.84%
Total votes			1,061,563	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	883,264	71.38%
	Democratic	Dudley Dougherty	354,188	28.62%
Total votes			1,237,452	100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	538,417	84.59%
	Republican	Carlos G. Watson	95,033	14.93%
	Constitution	Fred T. Spangler	3,025	0.48%
Total votes			636,475	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson (incumbent)	1,306,625	57.98%
	Republican	John Tower	926,653	41.12%
	Constitution	Bard A. Logan	20,506	0.91%
Total votes			2,253,784	100.00%
	Democratic hold

1956 Democratic National Convention, Presidential tally^[16]
Candidate	Votes	%
Adlai Stevenson II	905.5	65.89%
W. Averell Harriman	210	15.27%
Lyndon B. Johnson	80	5.82%
Stuart Symington	45.5	3.35%
Happy Chandler	36.5	2.69%
James C. Davis	33	2.40%
John S. Battle	32.5	2.40%
George Bell Timmerman Jr.	23.5	1.75%
Frank Lausche	5.5	0.44%

v t e Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States (1963–1969) 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963) U.S. Senator from Texas (1949–1961) U.S. Representative for TX-10 (1937–1949)
Presidency	Timeline Inaugurations first second Let Us Continue Great Society (Model Cities Program) Architectural Barriers Act Child Nutrition Act Clean Air Act Civil Rights Act of 1964 Coinage Act of 1965 Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Transportation Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 Head Start Program Job Corps Elementary and Secondary Education Act Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Civil Rights Act of 1968 Fair Housing Act Truth in Lending Act Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968 Food Stamp Act of 1964 Glassboro Summit Gun Control Act of 1968 Higher Education Act of 1965 Upward Bound TRIO Teacher Corps Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 Johnson Doctrine Dominican Republic occupation Medicare Medicaid Meritorious Service Medal National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities Executive Order 11246 Executive Order 11375 Older Americans Act Operation CHAOS Outer Space Treaty Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 Foreign policy Vietnam War Gulf of Tonkin Resolution "Credibility gap" VISTA 24th Amendment Voting Rights Act of 1965 War on poverty White House Conference on Civil Rights Cannabis policy White House preservation State of the Union Address 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Cabinet Judicial appointments Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court nomination controversies Johnson desk Presidential transition of Richard Nixon Executive Orders Presidential Proclamations
Life	Early years and career Operation Texas Texas Broadcasting Company Johnson Amendment Box 13 scandal Bashir Ahmad Charles E. Marsh Alice Marsh Helen Gahagan Douglas
Legacy and memorials	Bibliography Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building Lyndon Baines Johnson Day Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Memorial Grove on the Potomac U.S. Postage stamp USS Lyndon B. Johnson Black Jack (state funeral riderless horse)
Elections	United States House of Representatives 1937 (special) 1938 1940 1942 1944 1946 United States Senate 1941 (special) 1948 1954 1960 Democratic Party presidential primaries 1960 1964 campaign 1968 withdrawal Democratic National Conventions 1956 1960 1964 Presidential elections 1960 transition 1964
Public image	Lyndon B. Johnson in popular culture Daisy advertisement Johnson cult The Years of Lyndon Johnson Master of the Senate LBJ (1991 television film) Path to War (2002 film) All the Way (play, film) Selma (2014 film) LBJ (2017 film)
Family	Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson (wife) Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (daughter) Luci Baines Johnson (daughter) Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. (father) Sam Houston Johnson (brother) Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr. (grandfather) Joseph Wilson Baines (grandfather) George Washington Baines (great-grandfather) Chuck Robb (son-in-law)
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